>There is proposed new law on the matter--recent revisions to the
>Uniform Commercial Code, Section 2B, a/k/a UCITA (Uniform Computer
>Information Transactions Act). It has been approved by the National
>Conference of Commissioners for Uniform State Law and will be introduced
>in most state legislatures early next year. Do a web search for "UCITA"
>or "UCC 2B" and you'll find all kinds of opposition web pages.
Yes, I'm interested in *new* law too, and have already skimmed
enough material in magazines and online to get the impression
that UCITA is not exactly widely heralded...!
Still, I'm *primarily* interested in what *existing* law grants
special dispensation to computer programs to serve as after-the-fact
agents to contract negotiations without prior agreement by *all*
parties to the negotiations...and, unless some such law *already*
existed, whether attempts to make it appear that these programs
*have* that dispensation, and especially attempts to enforce it
via litigation, might constitute fraud.
tq vm, (burley)
